Quotes by : John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope....

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution....

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance....

A government of laws, and not of men

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies....

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all....

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health,....

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak,....

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.